unrepair
Americannoun
noun
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- unrepaired adjective
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Origin of unrepair
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Unrepair, un-rē-pār′, n. an unsound state.—adj.
From Project Gutenberg
His farm went to ruin and unrepair.
From Time Magazine Archive
From every point of vantage the steeples of Notre Dame de Noyon add the one ingredient which makes a unity of the entire ensemble,—a true old-world atmosphere, a town seen in not too apparent a state of unrepair and certainly not a degenerate.
From Project Gutenberg
The place was indeed in a state of unrepair.
From Project Gutenberg
Learning all but disappeared; the useful arts were little cultivated; cities fell into decay and the roads that bound them together were left in unrepair; the life of the time, barren alike in hovel and castle, was supported by the crude labor of a servile class.
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